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The sun will rise, and we will try again
Rawand Alagha The sun will rise, though skies are grey,Amid the cries, we find our way.Through endless nights, through blood and pain,We stand as one and try again. In Gaza’s streets, the shadows fall,But hearts still beat, defying all.The winds may roar, the earth may shake,But hope survives, no fear can break. The sun will…
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Beirut is a city of contrasts
Photo by Elliot Thomas-Gregory. A blown-out window front in a shopping mall in Lebanon, Beirut. Emily Reay Edited by Isabelle Slentz The city of Beirut, located at a cultural crossroads has a history dating back over five thousand years, thus the city has experienced vast change throughout its time. The marks left by the Ottoman…
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The Oriental Woman
The Fetishisation and Exoticisation of the Oriental Woman in Western Paintings Mallak Hashem Edited by Grace Phillips The notion that is “Orientalism” was unequivocally a transient one, given that today, the East is often perceived as barbaric, contentious and uncivilised. Yet between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the “Oriental” attitude, which denoted fascination with the…